IF nothing else, I'm tenacious about stopping in every thrift shop in town, while searching for cooking and baking items. Today I hit a double play with a clay baker for $6.99 and a pasta maker for $6.49. The funny part of this is that while at the Italian Deli buying some dried sausages for a fishing trip this weekend, I was looking at the pasta machines, and this model was $44.99. I held my ground just knowing that if I waited long enough, that I would find one at a grarage sal or the Thrift Store. The Schlemmertopf 839 clay baker goes for about $39.00 on Amazon.

The neatest part of this lay baker is that I can fit 3 closed pots in my oven to make 3 loaves of NYT bread t one time.